Jazz Articles about Bennie Moten

About Bennie Moten

Book Review

Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good

by Andrew Hunter
October 31, 2023

Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good Con Chapman 358 pages ISBN: # 978 1 80050 282 6 Equinox Publishing Limited 2023 In January 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution came into effect, ushering in 14 years of Prohibition and, inadvertently, a golden age for organised crime. As Harry Truman, not yet the president, observed in a letter to his fiancée, things were looking pretty good for ...

Book Excerpts

Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good

by Con Chapman
July 6, 2023

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 “Stomp to Swing" and Chapter 3 “Bennie Moten and His Competitors" from Con Chapman's Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good (Equinox, 2023). Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once wrote that he couldn't define pornography, but he knew it when he saw it. In jazz, the same deference to the senses applies in the case of the word “stomp"; musicians and critics alike throw up their ...